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An Article, with Additicns. 



Reprinted fro7n Scribner's Monthly for March, 1878. 

FROM PRESS OF COTT & HANN. COLUMBUS, O. 




CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, KENYON COLLEGE CHAPEL. 



The above cut will give some idea of the 
new College Chapel, though; no picture 
can give an adequate impression of all its 
beauties. It is a poem in stone and mor- 
tar, and both within and without, is surpass- 
ingly attractive. Used as the Chapel is for 
daily College prayers, it has a steady influ- 
ence for good, A new clock and full chime 
of bells have just been added, to make it 
all complete. 

We copy the following from the Cincin- 
nati Gazette : 

" Mr.- George A. Benedict, editor of the 
Cleveland Herald, was one of the delegates 
to the late Episcopal Convention held at 
Gambler, the seat of Kenyon College, For 
the first time Mr. Benedict saw the Col- 
lege Chapel— the Church of the Holy Spirit 
— and, like all who have eyes and taste, 
went into raptures over it. He devoted 
over a column of the Herald to a descrip- 
tion, and lamented that none of the Cleve- 



land churches were like the beautiful Chapel. 
He calls it the " most beautiful church in the 
country," and adds that " it is pronounced 
by people much travelled abroad to be as 
beautiful a church as there is in any country." 
Mr. Benedict goes on to say that the Church 
of the Holy Spirit is fine in its architecture 
and perfect in its proportions. "But the 
crowning glory of the Church of the Holy 
Spirit is its teachings in every window, in 
all its carvings, in its illuminated wall texts, 
in its ceiling and in its everything. That 
Church is a biblical study. It is cheerful ; 
there is nothing the least gloomy about it, 
and the most irreverent intuitively would 
take off his hat when he entered it, for it is 
the beauty of holiness. Its construction 
was due to the liberality of the former par- 
ishioners of Bishop Bedell, of the Church 
of the Ascension, New York ; and those 
munificent donors have planted a thing of 
beauty, *a joy forever,' on as exquisite a site 
as ever was graced by the house of God.'' 



KENYON COLLEGE. 



KENYON COLLEGE. 




ON THE KOKOSING, NEAR KENYON COLLEGE. 



The traveler in central Ohio, journeying 
by the new railroad from Columbus to 
Cleveland by way of Mount Vernon, finds 
himself, for several miles of his course, 
skirting the banks of a sparkling stream to 
which the old Indians gave the name " Ko- 
kosing." The valley through which tliis 
river flows is a charming one, and at one of 
the sudden turns of this winding stream, a 
few miles beyond Mount Vernon, upon a 
finely situated hill, rises the village of Gam- 
bier, the seat of Kenyon College. 

Half a century ago there was probably 
no institution of learning in our land more 
talked about than Kenyon College, for it 
was one of the first literary ventures of 
the West, and its needs and expectations 
were heralded far and near. Many there 
are who prefer a rose-bud to the fully de- 
veloped flower, and there is a certain charm 
about infancy which we do not recognize 
in manhood. This doubtless is one of the 
reasons why Kenyon has recently occupied 
a less prominent place before the public 
than in her early days. Besides, her de- 
velopment has not altogether been in the 
line anticipated. She has failed where suc- 
cess was dreamed of; she has won honor 
in ways that were not contemplated. 

The corner-stone of Kenyon College was 
laid in the month of June, 1827, so that 



Gambler is just beginning her second half- 
century of earnest life. By a happy co- 
incidence the fiftieth year marked the 
elevation of one of Kenyon's sons to the 
presidency of the United States. One of 
the trustees of Kenyon College, Hon. Mor- 
rison R. Waite, is now the highest judicial 
ofiicer of the country. Kenyon's sons also 
are to be found in the halls of Congress, so 
that she has links binding her to every de- 
partment of the government — legislative, 
judicial, executive. 

The list of the alumni of Kenyon has 
already grown to fair proportions. From the 
beginning her standard has been high, and 




BISHOP CHASliU LOG HUT 



KENYON COLLEGE, 



many of those who have studied in Gam- 
bier have left before completing the course ; 
but five hundred have been graduated. A 
large number of Kenyon's sons have be- 
come men of mark in church and state, and 
five of them have attained to a wide na- 
tional reputation. Henry Winter Davis, 
that " prince of parliamentary orators," in his 
early days practiced economy, and wrought 



days. Stanley Matthews also, who has re- 
cently won distinction by his arguments 
before the Electoral Commission, now 
United States Senator from Ohio, was at 
Kenyon a friend and companion of Presi- 
dent Haye^ Not unnaturally, Kenyon is 
proud of five such sons. 

The founder of Kenyon College was 
Philander Chase, the first bishop of the 




STANLEY MATTHEWS. 



with brain and muscle at Kenyon. Edwin 
M. Stanton, the great War Secretary, came 
in the spring-time of his life to Gambler. 
His college experience proved to be a 
turning-point, so that afterward he was 
accustomed to say, " If I am anything, 
I owe it to Kenyon College." David 
Davis, late Justice of the Supreme Court of 
the United States, now Senator from Illi- 
nois, was an associate of Stanton in college 



Protestant Episcopal church in Ohio, the 
uncle of Salmon P. Chase, and altogether a 
very remarkable man. He is thus described : 
" In height he was six feet and over ; the 
span of his chest was nearly if not quite 
equal to his height, and with that noble 
trunk his limbs were in full and admirable 
proportion. In a crowd his giant figure, in 
front or back, excited, wherever he moved, 
universal attention. Large and heavy in 



KENYON COLLEGE. 



stature as he was, he was remarkably light 
and graceful in his movements, and when 
not ruffled with opposition or displeasure, 
exceedingly agreeable, polished and finished 
in his manner. Toward those who betrayed 
hauteur in their deportment with him, or 
whom he suspected as actuated by such a 
spirit, or who positively dififered with him 
as to his policy, and especially toward those 
whom he looked upon as his enemies, he 
was generally distant and overbearing, and 
sometimes, when offended, perhaps morose. 
In his bearing toward them his noble coun- 
tenance was always heavy and lowering, and 
his deportment frigid and unmistakably re- 
pulsive; but in his general intercourse and 
always with his particular and intimate 
friends, his address and social qualities were 
polished, delightful and captivating; his 
countenance was sunlight, his manner warm 
and genial as balmy May, and his deport- 
ment winning to a degree rare among even 
remarkably commanding and popular men." 

Bishop Chase came of a sturdy New 
England stock, and was born in Cornish, 
New Hampshire, where he spent the days 
of his youth. When manhood came, how- 
ever, he could not content himself with such 
quiet and settled surroundings, for, of him, 
as afterward of his nephew, the Secretary, 
ambition was a most marked characteristic. 
He was first a missionary in western New 
York, and then he was stationed in Pough- 
keepsie, but soon afterward he removed to 
New Orleans. He was the first Protestant 
minister in the state of Louisiana. After 
five years of hard and successful labor, he 
removed again to the north, and for six 
years was a minister in Hartford, Conn. 
But Philander Chase was a man too restless, 
too ambitious, too great to remain long con- 
tented in any quiet and peaceful nook. He 
craved the contests and the storms of life. 
So, early in the spring of the year 1817, 
resolved " not to build upon another man's 
foundations," he started for what was then 
the far West, — the newly admitted state of 
Ohio. He was consecrated bishop in Feb- 
ruary, 1819. 

He soon became convinced that he must 
have assistance in his work. In four years 
his list of three clergymen had grown to six, 
but what could six men do in so vast a 
field ? Moreover, he became convinced that 
for western work, the best laborers were 
western men, more accustomed than others 
to the hardships of the new civilization, 
and more likely to be contented with the 
labor and its returns. So his mind began 



to be filled with a dream of a " school of 
the prophets," which, before long, took 
definite shape in his mind. Happily, the 
bishop's son suggested that favorable men- 
tion had been made in a prominent English 
journal of the new missionary work in far- 
off Ohio. The bishop immediately deter- 
mined that the ocean must be crossed, and 
the mother church asked to help. He first 
appointed his son for this service ; but his 
son's failing health required a journey to a 
southern clime, so the resolute bishop deter- 
mined to go himself 

In England, Bishop Chase became a great 
favorite. One noble lady was so much 
interested that she begged him to superin- 
tend the erection of a " log-cabin " upon 
her spacious grounds. Wealthy friends were 
gathered, and the pioneer bishop was the 
hero of the hour, delighting all with his 
thrilling sketches of frontier hardships, and 
with his glowing prophecies of magnificent 
triumphs sure to be achieved. Lord Gam- 
bier helped him greatly. Lord Kenyon also 
and Sir Thomas Ackland, and Lady Rosse, 
and Hannah More. The total result of 
this first appeal was more than five thou- 
sand pounds. In Ohio, the returning bishop 
was looked upon as a man of vast resources. 
Moreover, he felt himself to be even richer 
than he was, for his ideas were always larger 
than his cash in hand. So, very naturally, 
his thought of ministerial education expand- 
ed and became a scheme of Christian educa- 
tion. He determined to found not only a 
theological seminary, but a college also, while 
through his mind there floated visions of a 
grand educational center. He was strongly 
urged to confine himself to his original'plan, 
and to establish merely a school for the 
training of clergymen. Mr. Charles Ham- 
mond, a distinguished and influential citizen 
of Cincinnati, was especially strenuous on 
this point, and indeed went so far as to pre- 
pare and carry through the legislature a bill 
for the incorporation of " The Theological 
Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
in the state of Ohio," and so fixed the legal 
title of the new institution. But Bishop 
Chase was equally strenuous the other way. 
He readily won over his English friends to 
his view of the case, and soon after secured 
an additional legislative act which gave to 
the president and professors of the Seminary 
the power of conferring degrees in the arts 
and sciences under the name and style of 
the President and Professors of Kenyon 
College in the state of Ohio. 
The next important question to be settled 



KENYON COLLEGE. 




BISHOP AND MRS. CHASE. — FRO.M AN OLD TAINTING. 



was the location of the college. This proved 
to be a bone of contention, and gave rise to 
much discussion, and to not a little acri- 
monious feeling. More than " seven cities " 
contended for the honor, and not one of 
them carried off the prize, for Bishop Chase 
resolutely set himself to find a location in 
the country, and as usual was successful. A 
tract of eight thousand acres in Knox 
County Avas purchased at the price of two 
dollars and a quarter per acre; the corner- 
stone of Kenyon College was laid and the 
little village of Gambier sprang into being. 
This choice of a location amid well-nigh 
untrodden forests involved as a matter of 
course, heavy sacrifices and large outlays of 
labor. It was necessary to begin with the 
very elements of civilization. Workmen 
had to be gathered, lands made ready for 
tilling, crops raised and harvested, and cab- 
ins built for shelter. In fact, for some years, 
farming, milling and merchandising were 
carried on in the name of the college, and 



the institution became possessed of a store, 
a hotel, a printing-office, a saw-mill, a grist- 
mill, a carpenter's and shoe-maker's shop, 
with houses for the miller, the dairy-men 
and the workmen. No wonder that the 
funds contributed by English friends were 
soon altogether spent, and the resources of 
the bishop quite exhausted. 

It was needful therefore to make addi- 
tional appeals for aid, and very naturally, the 
" public crib " was thought of as a ready 
source of succor. So in December, A. D. 
1827, Bishop Chase went to Columbus, ad- 
dressed the legislature, and received from that 
body an indorsement of an appeal to Con- 
gress for a donation from the public lands. 
Soon after, a bill was introduced into the 
U. S. Senate making a grant of a township 
of land. The bill was advocated by prom- 
inent senators and was passed, but in the 
House of Representatives party spirit was 
roaring like a flood, and the voice of the 
infant college was drowned. The bill failed 



KENYON COLLEGE. 



in committee, and amid the rushof otherbus- 
iness was pushed aside. The good bishop 
was keenly disappointed but was not in de- 
spair. Immediately he issued what was then 




EXLEY HALL. 



a novel form of statement and appeal, "earn- 
estly entreating of every friend of every 
name and class one dollar in aid of the 
present struggles of Kenyon College." The 
dollars, it is said, came to Gambier as the 
leaves fall in autumn. I^arger subscriptions 
were also added, John Quincy Adams, 
then President of the United States, gave 
a hundred dollars. In all some twenty-five 
thousand dollars was 
received through this 
appeal. 

Meanwhile a goodly 
number of students had 
assembled at Gambier, 
and the work of the 
college went bravely 
on. Bishop Chase 
nominally occupied the 
office of president. He 
really filled most effici- 
ently the post of gen- 
eral manager and su- 
perintendent. Every 
morning the " head 
men " had to be direct- 
ed by him as to their 
daily work; every 
evening they were 
gathered to give ac- 
counts of labor. There was the tilling of 
the thousands of broad acres to be looked 
after, the quarrying of stone, the erection of 
buildings, the industries of the village, and 



all this in addition to the wants, bodily, 
mental and spiritual, of the student com- 
munity. Besides, there was the keeping of 
detailed accounts and the maintenance of a 
most extensive correspond- 
ence. The burden was 
altogether a very heavy one ; 
but Bishop Chase's broad 
shoulders were well fitted to 
bear it, particularly as he had 
a most efficient helpmate 
in his noble wife. " Mrs. 
Chase entered Avith her 
whole soul into her hus- 
band's plans. She was a 
lady perfectly at home in 
all the arts and minutiae of 
housewifery, as happy in 
darning stockings for the 
boys as in entertaining her 
visitors in the parlor, * * * 
and in keeping the multi- 
farious accounts of her in- 
creasing household as in 
presiding at her dinner-tkble 
and dispensing courtesy in her drawing- 
room." 

Through her efficiency and wisdom, and her 
husband's untiring and marvelous activity, 
Kenyon 's aftairs were for a time prosperous. 
A corps of able professors was gathered ; there 
were more students than could be well ac- 
commodated, while the building known as 
Old Kenyon, with walls four feet in thickness, 




OLD KENYON. 



rose solidly as though it were intended to 
stand forever. Difficulties, however, at length 
appeared, and grew to great proportions. 
" Kenyon College," said Bishop Chase at the 



KEN YON COLLEGE. 




ASCENSION HALL. 



time, " is like other colleges in some respects, 
and unlike all in many other respects. The 
fundamental principle in which it differs 
from all others is that the whole institution 
is patriarchal. Like Abraham on the plains 




ROSSE HALL. 



of Mamre, it hath pitched its tent under 
the trees of Gambier hill, it hath its flocks 
and "its herds, and its different families of 
teachers, scholars, mechanics and laborers, 
all united under one head, pursuing one 
common interest and receiving their main- 
tenance and food from one common source, 
the funds and farms of the College." The 
picture, it must be confessed, is not without 
its beauties, though the coloring is certainly- 



more Occidental than 
Oriental. Accurately 
drawn, it would have 
shown Western work- 
men ready to cry " in- 
dependence," a West- 
ern faculty to question 
the hmits of authority, 
and Western Young 
America to cheer 
them on. Pecuniary 
troubles added to the 
embarrassments of the 
situation. So on the 
ninth of September, 
1 83 1, Bishop Chase 
resigned the presi- 
dency of the college 
and the episcopate 
of Ohio. The next 
day he mounted " Cincinnatus," and rode 
sorrowfully away, and Gambier saw his face 
no more. He was afterward elected bishop 
of Illinois, and died at " Robin's Nest," 
where he founded Jubilee College. 

Kenyon's second president was Charles 
Pettit Mcllvaine, D. D., D. C. L. (Oxon.), 
who came to Gambier at the early age of 
thirty-three. He was then already widely 
and most favorably known, particularly in the 
great centers of Washington and New York, 
and has since been recognized as one of the 
great men of his generation. In appear- 
ance Bishop Mcllvaine was a king among 
men. He was great also as a thinker and 
an orator. He found the institution heavily 
in debt, but almost at once raised the needed- 
thirty thousand dollars and the debt was paid. 
Ten years later when burdens had again 
accumulated, he came to the rescue again. 




WINDOW IN COLLEGE CHAPEL. 



KENYON COLLEGE. 



During the whole sixteen years of his resi- 
dence in Gambier, and indeed until he 
died in a foreign land, Bishop Mcllvaine 
was always the same true, stanch^ faithful 
servant of Kenyon College. 



ship, taking a particularly high stand in 
mathematics and logic, and was graduated 
with the honors of his class. His com- 
mencement address, " College Life," with 
the valedictory, is still spoken of in terms 




KUTHEKFOKD B. HAVES 



President Hayes entered Kenyon as a 
student in the fall of the year 1838 and was 
graduated in 1842. A classmate writes 
that for the first two years of his course he 
did not really lead his class, but had a repu- 
tation as a reader of newspapers and as a 
person well informed in politics. He after- 
ward came rapidly to the front in scholar- 



of the highest commendation. Th& uni- 
form suit of the class, worn at graduation, 
would now look somewhat strange. It 
consisted of a coat of blue Kentucky jeans 
with black velvet collar, a white waistcoat, 
and white linen trowsers. 

A college friend of President Hayes has 
written : " I recollect him as one of the purest 



KEN YON COLLEGE. 



boys I ever knew. I have always recol- 
lected of him that in our most intimate, 
unreserved, private intercourse, I never 
knew him to entertain for a moment an un- 
manly, dishonest or demoralizing thought. 
And when we met in after life in scenes 
which called for the highest manhood and 
patriotism, I found the man to be exactly 
what his boyhood had promised." 

Hon. Stanley Matthews says of him : 
" Hayes as a boy was notorious for having 
on his shoulders not only the levelest but 
the oldest head in college. He never got 
caught in any scrapes, he never had any 
boyish foolishness ; he never had any wild 
oats to sow ; he was sensible, not as some 
men are, at the last, but sensible from the 
beginning. 

The following incident of President 
Hayes's college hfe may almost seem pro- 
phetic. We give it in the words of his inti- 
mate friend, Hon. Guy M. Bryan, of Texas, 
the facts having been certified to us by the 
President himself: 

"There were in those days two rival literary 
societies in the college — the Philomathesian and the 
Nu Pi Kappa ; the last known as the Southern 
Society, and the first as the Northern, because the 
students of the slave states belonged to the one, 
and those from the free states to the other. The 
college for years had been largely patronized from 
the Southern states, but this patronage gradually 
waned until, in the winter of 1841, there were so 
few Southern students in the college that the mem- 
bers of the Nu Pi Kappa were apprehensive that 
the society would cease to exist for want of new 
members. This was a serious question with the 
members of the society. I determined to open the 
subject to my intimate friend Hayes to see if we 
could not devise some mode to prevent the extinc- 
tion of the society, which was chartered by the state 
and had valuable property. We talked over the 
subject with all the feeling and interest with which 
we would now discuss the best means of bringing 
about an era of good feeling between the two sec- 
tions of the country. At last, Hayes said, " Well, I 
will get ' Old Trow,' Comstock and some others 
to join with me, and we will send over a delegation 
from our society to yours, and then we can make 
new arrangements so that both societies can live in 
the old college.' He and I then went to work to 
consummate our plan. Ten members of the Philo- 
mathesian joined the Nu Pi Kappa. A joint com- 
mittee was then appointed from the two societies, 
that reported a plan by which students could enter 
either society without reference to north or south. 
Thus Hayes, by his magnanimity, perpetuated the 
existence of the Nu Pi Kappa society, — and should 
lie be elected president, I earnestly hope that he 
may be equally successful in his best efforts in be- 
"half of a civil policy which will wipe out forever 
the distinction between north and south in the 
government of our common country." 

The following letter from President Hayes, 
written after his last election as Governor, 
Vol. XV.— 49. 



may be taken as fairly representative of the 
kindly feelings entertained by the graduates 
of the college in general. 

Fremont, O., October 13, 1875. 
My Kenyon Friends : A host of congratulatory 
dispatches are before me. I cannot acknowledge 
with even a word of thanks, the most of them. But, 
yours, first to be replied to, touches me particularly. 
Accept my thanks for it. I hope you will all have 
reason to remember old Kenyon with as much satis- 
faction as I do. I have no more cherished recollec- 
tions than those which are associated with college 
life. Except the four years spent in the Union 
army, no other period of my life is to be compared 
with it. I hope you may all have equal reason 
always to think of Kenyon as I do. 

In the greatest haste, 

I remain, sincerely, 

R. B. Hayes. 

The expenses of living in Gambler in early 
days were very small. The annual charges 
were — 

For Instruction $30.00 

For Board at the College table 40.00 

Room rent in a room with a stove 4.00 

" " " " " fire-place 6.00 

For theological students and sons of clergy- 
men the total charge was 50.00 

Those were the days when the boys were 
required " to sweep their own rooms, make 
their own beds and fires, bring their own 
water, black their own boots if they ever 
were blacked, and take an occasional turn 
at grubbing in the fields or working on the 
roads." The discipline was somewhat strict, 
and the toil perhaps severe, but the few 
pleasures that were allowed were thoroughly 
enjoyed. 

During the President's school-days there 
were two great men at Gambler, Bishop 
Mcllvaine and Dr. William Sparrow. 
There were other eminent men among the 
instructors: Major Douglass was a man 
of ability, and the traditions which still 
linger in the place concerning Professor 
Ross clearly show that he was possessed 
of remarkable power; but Bishop Mcll- 
vaine and Dr. Sparrow were pre-eminently 
great men, — men whose greatness has been 
felt as an educating influence on both sides 
of the Alleghanies. Bishop Mcllvaine's 
was a divided duty, for in addition to his 
college labors he had the care of a large 
and struggling diocese ; while Dr. Sparrow 
gave to Kenyon his full and undivided 
strength, and so had the stronger hold upon 
the students. He led them not only wisely 
and bravely, but faithfully and with a true 
heart. President Hayes speaks of him as 
"one of the giants"; Secretary Stanton 



KENYON COLLEGE. 



also honored him through hfe, and sent for 
him in his later days that he might be bap- 
tized at his hands. 

Until the year 1840 there was a joint 
faculty of theology and arts in Gambier. At 
that time separate faculties were consti- 
tuted with separate heads, Bishop Mcllvaine 
continuing at the head of the Theological 
Seminary, while Major D. B. Douglass, 
LL.D., w^as elected to the presidency of the 
College. Major Douglass was an ac- 
complished civil engineer, a soldier, and 
"every inch a man." He began his work 
earnestly in Gambier, and improvement was 
the order of the day. But the time was not 
ripe for him. He was succeeded within a 
few years by Rev. Dr. S. A, Bronson. 

The chief event accomplished during Dr. 
Bronson's presidency was the sale of a large 
portion of the college lands. Though of 
very considerable value, these lands from 
the first had brought to the institution only 
the scantiest returns. One agent after an- 
other had been employed to oversee them. 
The raising of sheep proved disastrous ; the 
culture of wheat could not be made to pay. 
Many of the tenants turned out to be either 
shiftless or dishonest. So, in the year 1850, 
after much discussion, it was determined 
that the form of the investment should be 
changed, and the lands were ordered to be 
sold. 

Almost immediately there came increased 
prosperity. Happily, too, at this juncture, 
Lorin Andrews, LL.D., was elected presi- 
dent. The friend and champion of popular 
education in Ohio, he found helpers in every 
county of the state. The list of students was 
quickly swelled, so that in 1855 "room for 
enlargement" w-as a thing of necessity. 
President Andrews resigned in 1861 to 
enter the Union army. He was the first 
volunteer from Ohio, entering the service as 
colonel of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, Very 
soon, however, he contracted disease, from 
the effects of which he died. His body 
rests in a quiet nook of that college park 
which so often echoed to his step. With 
President Hayes, he was for a time a mem- 
ber of the class of 1842. 

This sketch has been written with special 
reference to Kenyon in the past. A rapid 
glance at the buildings of the institution 
may help to give an idea of her develop- 
ment and growth, and of her capacities for 
present usefulness. 



Bexley Hall stands upon a knoll at the 
northern extremity of the village. It was 
erected for the exclusive use of the Theo- 
logical Seminary, after a design given by 
the architect of the London Crystal Palace. 
It contains the library of the Seminary, 
about seven thousand volumes, — and fur- 
nislied rooms, each with separate bedrooms, 
for thirty-four students. 

The College Park is about half a mile in 
the opposite direction ; a broad and well- 
shaded avenue leads the way thereto. Near 
the southernmost point of this park, just 
upon the brow of the hill, and overlooking 
for miles the charming Kokosing valley, 
stands the more massive and venerable edi- 
fice of Kenyon College. This building 
contains fifty rooms for students, also the 
libraries of the two societies. 

Rosse Hall, a substantial stone building 
in Ionic architecture, is used for rhetorical 
exercises, for lectures, and on commence- 
ment occasions, and is capable of accom- 
modating nearly a thousand persons. 

Close by old Kenyon stands Ascension 
Hall, an imposing structure, and one of the 
finest college buildings in the land. It con- 
tains two spacious and elaborately furnished 
halls for the literary societies, the library 
of Kenyon College with its museum, and 
twenty-six rooms for students. The tower 
is used for an observatory. 

Directly north of Ascension, and about 
fifty yards from the village street, stands the 
beautiful Church of the Holy Spirit. Ivy, 
transplanted from Melrose Abbey, has al- 
ready begun to adorn its walls. Within, the 
coloring and the carving are quite attractive. 
The funds for the erection of this college 
church were given by members of the Church 
of the Ascension, New York, as a tribute of 
appreciation for their former rector. Bishop 
Bedell. 

In her requisites for admission and in the 
course of study, Kenyon does not materially 
differ from the leading colleges of the eastern 
states. She aims to give a thorough liberal 
education, and believes in the value of hard 
mental discipline. She beheves also in right 
religious influences, and labors to afford 
them, pursuing steadfastly " the true, the 
beautiful, the good." In her view, " Chris- 
tianity is the science of manhood," and all 
truth, being God's truth, should lead finally 
to Him. So her faith is liberal, conservative, 
evangelical, catholic. 



KEN YON COLLEGE. 



Rev. WILLIAM B. BODINE, D. D., 

President. 

Spencer and Wolfe Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 

LAWRENCE RUST, M. A., 

Vice President. 

Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 

Rev. EDWARD C. BENSON, A. M., 
Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 

THEODORE STERLING, A. M., M. D., 
Bowler Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. 

Rev. GEORGE A. STRONG, A. M., 

Mcllvaine Professor of English Literature and History. 

Instructor in Rhetoric. 

ELI T. TAPPAN, L.L. D., 
Peabody Professor of Mathematics, Civil Engineering and Astronomy; 

Instructor in Logic. 

Rev. CYRUS S. BATES, A. M., . 
Acting Professor of Constitutional Law. 
Instructor in Christian Evidences. 

WILLIAM T. COLVILLE, A. B., 
Instructor in German and French. 



KEN YON COLLEGE. 




KENYON BALL GROUNDS. 



GENERAL INFORMATION. 



LOCATION. 

Gambier is distant by rail two hours 
from Columbus, five hours from Cleve- 
land, and six hours from Cincinnati. 
The station of the Cleveland, Mt. Ver- 
non and Columbus Railroad is immedi- 
ately in the rear of the College grounds. 
The buildings are among the best in the 
United States. The halls of the Liter- 
ary Societies are unsurpassed. The 
College Park contains about a hundred 
acres, well shaded with maples, and 
with the grand old oaks of the native 
forest. To the east, the west, and the 
south, it slopes most beautifully toward 
the valley of the Kokosing. 

DEGREES. 

The Degrees of Bachelor of Arts is 
conferred upon all students in good 
standing who are approved at the final 
examinations of the Senior Class. 

The Degree of Bachelor of Philoso- 
phy is conferred upon those who have 
successfully pursued the study of Mod- 
ern Languages instead of Greek, and 
who have sustained satisfactory exam- 



inations upon all other studies of the 
regular course. 

LITERARY SOCIETIES. 

The two Literary Societies, the PJiilo- 
matJiesian and Nii Pi Kappa, have always 
been fostered by the College. The 
Society Halls are very commodious, and 
have been fitted up at great expense, 
occupying the whole of the second and 
third stories of the central portion of 
Ascension Hall. All the students are 
active members. The meetings are held 
every week, for practice in declamation, 
essay, oratory and discussion. These 
exercises, with the mutual criticism 
which forms a part of the regular work, 
and the generous rivalry maintained be- 
tween the Societies, contribute very 
much to the education of the students 
as writers and speakers. 

LIBRARIES. 

The students have access to the Libra- 
ries of the Theological Seminary, Ken- 
yon College, the PJdloviatJiesian Society, 
and the N21 Pi Kappa Society. The 
aggregate number of volumes in these 
Libraries is about 22,000. 



KEN YON COLLEGE. 




HARCOURT PLACE ACADEMY. 



READING ROOMS. 

Two Reading Rooms have been fitted 
up by the members of the PJiilomatJic- 
sian and Nu Pi Kappa Societies, where 
copies of the leading English and Amer- 
ican periodicals and newspapers are kept 
on file. 

ASSISTANCE. 

Tuition fees are remitted to the sons 
of clergymen of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church. 

The College fees of other students of 
superior merit may be remitted in part 
or in whole upon application to the 
President. 

BOARDING AND LODGING. 

Dormitories are pro- 
vided in the College 
buildings in which all 
students must lodge, 
unless they obtain 
permission from the 
President to room 
elsewhere. The Col- 
lege makes no special 
provision for board. 
This can readily be 
obtained in private 
families, or, at times, 
in clubs. 

EXPENSES. 

Each room is suf- 
ficiently large and 
convenient to accom- 



modate two students. 
The rooms are pro- 
vided with stoves, 
and are neatly paint- 
ed and papered by the 
College. Students 
provide their own 
beds, furniture, light, 
books and stationery. 
Furniture can often 
be bought, as well as 
sold, at second-hand, 
and the expense in- 
curred by its use need 
not be great. 

The College charg- 
es are : For Tuition, 
;^io per term — for 
Room Rent, $^ per term — and for Inci- 
dentals, ^lo per annum. A Matricu- 
lation fee of ^5 is charged to every 
student at his entrance. There are also 
some minor expenses, consisting of 
taxes voluntarily imposed by the stu- 
dents in their Classes and Literary So- 
cieties, and the expenses of graduation. 
Every Student on entering the College^ 
must deposit ^5 with the Treasurer, as 
security for damage. The charges on 
this fund have averaged less than one 
dollar per year to each student. The 
balance is returned to the student on 
leaving. 

Students are not allowed to board 
themselves in their rooms, as this prac- 




THE president's HOUSE 



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tice has been found to be perilous to 
good health. 

The following estimate may be given 
of the necessary annual expenses, not 
including expenses in vacations : 

Tuition ! Free $30 

Room Rent Free 15 

Incidentals $ 10 10 

Fuel 1,5 30 

Board 95 133 

Washing 15 20 

Lights 3 5 

Total $138 S243 

Other incidental expenses, such as 
books and stationery, furniture, expen- 
ses in societies, traveling expenses, etc. , 
vary according to circumstances, and 
the character and habits of the individual 
student. 

PROVISION FOR IRREGULAR STUDENTS. 

Students who do not desire to gradu- 
ate may enter at any time, and take any 
studies which they are prepared to 
prosecute to advantage. 

PROVISION FOR INSTRUCTION PREPARA- 
TORY TO ENTERING COLLEGE. 

To meet the wants of older students 
who have not yet completed their pre- 
paratory studies, arrangements have 
been made whereby they can take 
rooms in the College building, board 
in the village, and recite as day pupils 
at Milnor Hall. Such students will be 
responsible for good conduct to the Col- 
lege Faculty, and will not be allowed 
to remain should their behavior be at all 
objectionable. The expenses to students 
of this class for tuition, board, room 
rent, fuel, lights, and washing, will be 
less than ^200 per annum. 

REQUISITES FOR ADMISSION. 

Candidates for the Freshman Class 
are examined in the following studies : 

English. — Grammar ; Reading ; Spelling and 
Composition. 

Mathematics. — Arithmetic; Algebra, to Quad- 
ratics ; Getunetry, to and including the Theory of 
Circumference. 

The candidate should be practiced in 
mental exercises in arithmetic, and 
should be acquainted with the decimal 
system of weights and measures, and 
also with circulating decimals and the 
extraction of the square root. 



There are two examinations in Arith- 
metic. The first is on the primary 
rules, factoring, greatest common meas- 
ure and least common multiple of inte- 
gers, compound numbers, fractions and 
decimals. Until a student shows a good 
knowledge of this primary matter, he is 
not examined further. The second ex- 
amination is on precentage and interest, 
circulates, greatest common measure 
and least common multiple of fractions, 
square root and the metric system. In 
Algebra much weight is given to the 
statement of problems in equations. 

Latin— Grammar, including Prosody : Arnold's 
Prose Composition to Chapter X ; Caesar," Four Books; 
(Mcero, Six Orations; Virgil, Four Books of the 
jEneid. The English method of pronunciation is 
preferred. 

Greek— Grammar, including Prosody and Compo- 
sition; Xenophon's Anabasis, Three Booke, ; Ho- 
mer's Iliad, One Book. 

Godwin's Grammar is used as a man- 
ual. Some simple Reader, or Compan- 
ion Book of Exercises, should be used 
in connection with the Grammar. 

Geography— Ancient and Modern. 

Ancient History^ Smith's History of Greece, to 
page 102; Liddell's History of Rome, Twenty-four 
Chapters. 

History and Geography should be 
studied together. In reading Caesar and 
Xenophon, there should be constant ref- 
erence to the map. 

MythoIjOGy— A Hand-Book, such as Baird's Classi- 
cal Manual, should be studied in connection with 
Virgil and Homer. A jrood Ulnssical Dictionary, and 
a Dictionary of Antiquities are necessary to every 
classical student. 

Candidates for advanced standing are 
examined in the above studies, and in 
the studies that have been pursued by 
the class. 

Fair equivalents are received for any 
of the above named books, or for parts 
of them. The books named serve to 
indicate the amount required. 

If a student is further advanced in 
some studies than in others, he may 
pursue the studies for which he is pre- 
pared. Opportunities are furnished such 
irregular students to make up the defec- 
tive study. 

Candidates for admission must pre- 
sent testimonials of good moral charac- 
ter ; and if they come from other colleges. 



KEN YON COLLEGE. 



certificates of dismis- 
sion in good stand- 
ing. 

The regular exam- 
ination for admission 
to College takes place 
on Monday preceding 
Commencement, be- 
ginning at 8:30 A.M. 
Another examination 
is held on the day be- 
fore the opening of 
the Christmas Term, 
at the same hour. 
Students may be ex- 
amined for an ad- 
vanced standing at 
any time before the 
commencement of the 
term of the Senior year. 

The Annual Commencement is held 
on the last Thursday in June. The 
Christmas Term begins the first Thurs- 
day in September. 

For further information address the 
Vice-President, Lawrence Rust, M. A., 
Gambler, Knox county, Ohio. 




MIT.NOR HALL. 



MILNOR HALL, 



GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF KENYON COLLEGE. 



Docte et JPeHte Facere. 
James P. Nelson, 



Principal' 



Wirt Minor, M. A., 
Willis M. Townsend, Chas. D. Williams, 

Assistants. 



Mrs. M. W. M. Nelson, 



Matron. 



DESIGN. 

The design of the College in estab- 
lishing the Grammar School, was to 
provide an institution where, under 
Christian and home influences boys 
might be thoroughly prepared to enter 
College. The Principal will do his ut- 
most to carry out this design: he will 
have as his assistants men of peculiar 
fitness for teaching. 

The School is under the general 
supervision of the Board of Trustees of 
the College. The Principal was appoint- 



ed by the President and Faculty of the 
College, and thus there is afforded the 
public a guaranteee of his fitness to 
direct the details of the school. In these 
details the principal has entire control. 

THE HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. 

Under the management of the Mat- 
ron, the Household Department is so 
regulated as to relieve the scholars of 
all care as to their washing and mend- 
ing. The rooms are neatly furnished 
with single beds, and all other necessary 
furniture. They are well ventilated and 
lighted. A janitor attends to them 
every morning and all the lamps are 
filled by him. 

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 

The course of instruction is specially 
adapted to prepare boys for College. 
At the same time no pains will be spared 
to supply the wants of those who desire 
to enter upon business life. Those who 
are able to spend but a short time at 
school can pursue the study of selected 
branches. 

EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS. 

Examinations are held at the close of 
each half-session; by these the pro- 
gress of the scholar is determined. 

Monthly reports will be sent to the 
parents of each scholar, indicating his 
standing in his classes, and his general 
deportment. Parents are particularly 



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requested to take notice of these reports 
and to keep themselves informed thereby 
of the progress and behavior of their sons. 

PRIZES. 

Medals and valuable books will be 
given as prizes to those scholars who 
reach a certain high grade of scholarship. 

RELIGIOUS SERVICES. 

The School is the Diocesan School of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church for the 
Dioceses of Ohio and Southern Ohio. 
As a Church School it secures to its 
patrons an education based on Christian 
principles. 

The scholars attend daily evening 
pryer at the chapel of the College, and 
also the public reli- 
gious worship of the 
Lord's day. 

PHYSICAL EXERCISE. 

Every effort is made ^B 
to encourage physical 
culture. The play 
grounds are ample, 
and the Principal pro- 
vides means for en- 
gaging in sports of a 
healthy nature. 

The gymnasium of 
the College, which is 
well provided with 
apparatus, is open to 
the pupils of the 
Hall. The Kokosing 
river, which is near at hand, affords 
ample opportunities for bathing and 
skating. 

EXPENSES. 

The charge for Tuition, Board, Fuel, 
Lights, and Washing, is ;^300 for the 
entire session. This is payable as fol- 
lows: ;^I50 on entrance, the balance 
the first day of February thereafter. 
There are no extra charges. 

Pupils who are a month late in enter- 
ing will be charged at the rate of ^35 
per month for the remainder of the 
half-session. 

The charge for the tuition alone will 
be ;^30 per session, payable semi-annu- 
ally in advance. 



A deposit of ^5 will be required from 
each pupil to cover damages done to 
the property of the School. Whatever 
is not required in payment of such 
damages will be promptly returned. 

fi@"Particular attention is called to 
the home features of the School. The 
family sitting room is open at all times 
for the use of the scholars. 

SESSION. 

The Session begins the first Thursday 
in September, and closes the last Thurs- 
day in June. There are two vacations 
of two weeks each, one at Christmas, 
and one at Easter. 

Books and stationery are furnished by 




THE UISHOrs HOUSE. 



the Principal. At least fifteen dollars 
must be deposited to cover this ex- 
pense. Pocket-money will be supplied 
to scholars when a deposit for that pur- 
pose has been made. Two dollars a 
month is deemed to be an ample allow- 
ance for a young boy. 

It will be seen that the first payment, 
including all deposits, will be |i8o. 

'^^A deduction of 20 per cent, zvill be 
allowed the sons of clergyjnen. 

REQUISITES. 

Each scholar must bring with him a 
coverlid, two pair of sheets and blankets 
(single), pillow cases, towels, napkins, 
napkin ring, and clothes bag. Each 
article of clothing, and everything else 



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brought by the pupil, should be plainly- 
marked with his full name. No un- 
marked clothing will be allowed in the 
laundry. An umbrella and a pair of 
overshoes are absolutely necessary. 

UNIFORM, 

For such a school as Milnor Hall 
there are great advantages in uniformity 
of dress, (i.) In the matter of expense. 
(2.) As a great help in producing a 
feeling of ''Esprit du corps" among 
the scholars, leading them to be care- 
ful lest they should discredit the organi- 
zation, the badge of which they wear. 
(3.) As a means of avoiding unpleas- 
ant comparisons by placing all upon 
the same footing in the matter of dress. 

A uniform has been adopted for the 
School, consisting of coat, pants and 
vest, of the finest West Point Cadet 
gray cloth, trimmed with neat brass 
buttons and a small black stripe. The 
uniform is such that, by removing the 
trimmings, it will answer for wear when 
the scholars are away from the School. 
It is distintive, but not peculiar. 

The cost of each suit will vary from 
$20) to ;^25, depending upon the size of 
the wearer. A sample of the cloth 
will be sent upon applicatian. The 
quality of the goods and the workman- 
ship are guaranteed to be the very best. 

Scholars who expect to stay but a 
few months, will not be required to 
wear the uniform. 

Two suits a year will answer all ordi- 
nary purposes. 

For further information, address the 
Principal. 



Forty years ago Bishop Mcllvaine 
wrote: " It should be recollected that 
in the west a college can hardly be ex- 
pected to sustain a dignified stand as to 
the requisites for admission, to enforce 
a vigorous system of internal discipline 



and carry out such a course of study as 
becomes its profession and its degrees, 
without sacrificing for a long time num- 
bers for attainments. It is the deter- 
mination of those in the administration 
of Kenyon College to endeavor to 
attain an enlarged patronage without 
compromise with any defective notions 
of educations, or any humoring of popu- 
lar caprice. A few young inen well edu- 
cated are zi'orth a host superficially taught. 
Such a determination in this country 
requires much patience and firmness in 
its prosecution, but I trust it will never 
yield to any temptation to popularity or 
pecuniary increase. Ultimately it must 
have its reward." 



The following bit of description will 
be appreciated by old Kenyon students. 
It is taken from a poem read by Rev. 
A. F. Blake at the recent banquet of 
the Kenyon Club of Cincinnati : 

Never until that hour when the power of memory 

fails, 
Shall fade away the vision of those lovely vales ; 
Which, line a belt of emerald, encircles the little 

town, 
With its College towers and spires quietly looking 

down 
Over patches of rusty corn, and wheat fields lying 

still. 
To the glistening stream which turns the old red 

mill; 
To the ancient dam, where the waters splash and 

foam. 
Past the hewn log walls of many a humble home, 
Eastward to where the eye fell on "Zion's" wood- 
ed crest, 
Or, looking down the valley, stretching toward the 

West. 
Behold the little river comes rippling by that 

gravel isle, 
Where long ago, on summer afternoons we often 

did beguile 
Away the happy hours with merry games and 

playful sport; 
With ringing shouts of laughter, with quick and 

bright retort. 
Ah ! how many are the pictures which we might 

unroll, 
If time was ours to turn back Memory's cherished 

scroll ! 



ADVAt(TAGES OFFE[(ED BY KEf(YON COLLEGE, 



[From a leading article in Tlie Standard of the O'o.w.] 

Kenyon can offer many strong claims 
for our patronage. In her reputation 
and her high standard of scholarship 
she has a great advantage over most 
Western colleges. In point of expense, 
in nearness to our home, in close rela- 
tion between professors and students, 
she has an advantage over Eastern col- 
leges ; and in moral tone and religious 
influence she has, we think, a decided 
advantage over nwst other colleges 
whether East or West. 

The greater cheapness of living at 
Gambler is a great advantage over the 
leading Eastern colleges. President 
Eliot, of Harvard, in his recent annual 
report, gives four scales of expenditure 
for students at Harvard. He gives $61$ 
as an '" economical," $830 as a "mod- 
erate," ;^i,365 as an "ample" annual 
expenditure. This statement was made 
to show that the necessary cost at Har- 
vard was not much greater than at other 
leading Eastern colleges ; but it is two 
or three times greater than at Gambler. 
To very wealthy parents, a large scale of 
expenditure may seem an advantage, 
and yet, to those who see that nine are 
ruined, morally or financially, by ex- 
travagance, where one is harmed by 
economy, it seems wise that during the 
formative period of college life, the 
tendency to extravagance should be re- 
pressed rather than encouraged. 

Kenyon has for us another advantage 
over the Eastern colleges in its nearness 
to our Ohio homes. One leaving Cleve- 
land or Cincinnati in the morning, can 
dine at noon at Gambler. The home 
influence ought to be maintained at its 
maximum, and its power is very apt to 
be like that of attraction — "inversely 
as the square of the distance." There 
is also, doubtless, a much closer relation 
between professors and students at Ken- 
yon, than at the great Eastern colleges. 
At Kenyon the professors come into 
close personal relations with the stu- 
dents. They know each man well, and 



feel a personal interest in him ; and are 
often able to exert a personal influence 
over him, which is worth more than any 
amount of mere instruction could be. 

If intellectual culture were the only 
object, it is believed that it would be 
wise for our people to* send their sons 
to Kenyon, But intellectual culture 
ought not to be the only object. 
Throughout Christian character is worth 
more than any measure of mental en- 
dowment — worth more as a personal 
possession — worth more as an outward 
influence — worth more, even as a mer- 
cantile capital. In these days of rich 
insolvencies, and respectable defalca- 
tion, and pious embezzlements, real 
Christian character is to be more and 
more at a premium. For the building 
up of such a character, Kenyon has 
great advantages. In too many of our 
colleges Christianity is almost overlooked 
and in too many others it is so present- 
ed that it does not attract the noblest 
natures, nor do the best work. Christi- 
anity is too often so presented to young 
men that they think of it as a blind be- 
lief in a system of doctrines which have 
no logical relation to a good life, and as 
tending to produce either the outgush- 
ing of a feeble emotionalism, or the 
timid unreasoning of a credulous faith. 
It ought to be so presented that they 
will think of it as an intelligent, loving 
obedience to a system of truth which 
has the closest logical relation to a good 
life — a system of truth whose real ten- 
dency is, not to make reason receive 
trom faith the check of any timidity, 
but rather, to make reason receive from 
faith the stimulus of the grandest cour- 
age — that courage which dares to trust 
the eternal excellence and the eternal 
safety of truth. Christianity is an ade- 
quate cause for the production of all 
that is strongest, and truest, and brave- 
est, and noblest, in human character. 
It ought to be so presented that it will 
be seen to be such a cause, and felt to 
be such a cause. We believe that it is 
so presented at Gambler. 



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